Baroque and Rococo

 

Baroque and Rococo Art Map

Domenichino
 

Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)

(b Bologna, Oct 1581; d Naples, 6 April 1641).

Italian painter and draughtsman. On the basis of his frescoes and altarpieces he became established as the most influential exponent of the 17th-century classical style. Through his critical analysis of the art of Raphael and Annibale Carracci he was influential in the creation of a modern canon of the ancients; and he was perhaps the most complete example of a 17th-century artist struggling to reconcile tradition with the demand for spectacle.